Speculative
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RAGGED by Christopher Irvin (BOOK REVIEW)
Thank you @titanbooks for my review copy! Christopher Irvin is the author of the novel Ragged. His debut collection, Safe Inside the Violence, was a finalist for the 2016 ... -
HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK by Sequoia Nagamatsu (BOOK REVIEW)
“Once, I asked her what she was doing, and she said she was just trying to keep track of it all because it didn’t seem like ... -
THE BOOK OF THE BAKU by R.L. Boyle
Sean is a 13-year-old boy who has been taken into care and eventually fostered by his estranged grandfather. His grandfather is a writer, living in a ... -
ANIMALS AT NIGHT by Naomi Booth (BOOK REVIEW)
“They’re getting drunk and reminiscing about their old lives, about gigs and parties and festivals on faraway beaches where they’d danced and played like animals at ... -
THE FLIGHT FROM THE ENCHANTER by Iris Murdock (BOOK REVIEW)
“You will never know the truth, and you will read the signs in accordance with your deepest wishes. That is what we humans always have to ... -
TEMPORARY AGENCY by Rachel Pollack (BOOK REVIEW)
“When I was fourteen, a cousin of mine angered a Malignant One.” Rachel Pollack’s Temporary Agency (1994) is set in the same world as her classic ... -
THE DARK BETWEEN THE TREES by Fiona Barnett (BOOK REVIEW)
‘Alice was a historian, which meant that part of her wanted that connection to people over the centuries, people who would never and could never meet ... -
WALKING ON COWRIE SHELLS by Nana Nkweti (BOOK REVIEW)
“A Mami Wata’s essence is moonlight and desire melded to one. Nala knows this in her marrow, in her fins. Lasirèn, Yemanja, Oxum, Erzulie, Jine-Faro, Santa ... -
BEAUTIFUL STAR by Yukio Mishima (BOOK REVIEW)
Yukio Mishima – Beautiful Star (1962, translated by Stephen Dodd 2022) “Death now enveloped earthlings in the form of beautiful clouds. The high crimson and violet ... -
ONE OF US by Craig DiLouie (BOOK REVIEW)
“Let’s start with the plague kids,” Mr Benson said. “What do ya’ll think about them? Tell the truth.” “They ain’t human. They’re just animals.” Craig DiLouie ...
